Dr. Lindsay Maureen Johnson

Dr. Lindsay Maureen Johnson

Associate Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track

Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Department of Music

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

She/Her/Hers/Herself

About

Lindsay Johnson teaches music history and directs UMBC's early music ensemble, and is Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor. She holds a PhD in Musicology from UCLA.

Research interests

17-century Italian nuns and their music with respect to sacred eroticism and performed embodiment. Queer theory and convent culture.

Gender and sexuality, the performing voice and body, and the experience of the listener.

Teaching interests

Music history in its cultural context; gender and sexuality in music; music and social justice; early music performance; experimental archaeology; listening.

Education

  • Ph D, MusicologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles (2013)
    Performed Embodiment, Sacred Eroticism, and Voice in Devotions by Early Seventeenth-Century Italian Nuns
  • MA, MusicologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles (2008)
  • BA, MusicSalem College (2005)